Husband of Olney Rosamon Henderson. They were married 17 March 1861 in Adair County, Missouri and were the parents of Nancy M Moore and Augustus M M Moore.
Co B 39th MO Inf (Union)
Died of smallpox at Arsenal Island, St Louis MO
Reburied in Jefferson Barracks in 1876
"In 1876, 470 unknown Union remains were transferred from Arsenal Island in Illinois, the U.S. Army's contagious disease hospital located on an island in the Mississippi River, known during the war as "Smallpox Island." Flooding washed away the cemetery's wooden markers, making identification of the remains impossible when they were reinterred." National Park Service, www.nps.gov
Ref: Roll of Honor Vol. X
Co B 39th MO Inf (Union)
Died of smallpox at Arsenal Island, St Louis MO
Reburied in Jefferson Barracks in 1876
"In 1876, 470 unknown Union remains were transferred from Arsenal Island in Illinois, the U.S. Army's contagious disease hospital located on an island in the Mississippi River, known during the war as "Smallpox Island." Flooding washed away the cemetery's wooden markers, making identification of the remains impossible when they were reinterred." National Park Service, www.nps.gov
Ref: Roll of Honor Vol. X
Husband of Olney Rosamon Henderson. They were married 17 March 1861 in Adair County, Missouri and were the parents of Nancy M Moore and Augustus M M Moore.
Co B 39th MO Inf (Union)
Died of smallpox at Arsenal Island, St Louis MO
Reburied in Jefferson Barracks in 1876
"In 1876, 470 unknown Union remains were transferred from Arsenal Island in Illinois, the U.S. Army's contagious disease hospital located on an island in the Mississippi River, known during the war as "Smallpox Island." Flooding washed away the cemetery's wooden markers, making identification of the remains impossible when they were reinterred." National Park Service, www.nps.gov
Ref: Roll of Honor Vol. X
Co B 39th MO Inf (Union)
Died of smallpox at Arsenal Island, St Louis MO
Reburied in Jefferson Barracks in 1876
"In 1876, 470 unknown Union remains were transferred from Arsenal Island in Illinois, the U.S. Army's contagious disease hospital located on an island in the Mississippi River, known during the war as "Smallpox Island." Flooding washed away the cemetery's wooden markers, making identification of the remains impossible when they were reinterred." National Park Service, www.nps.gov
Ref: Roll of Honor Vol. X
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